Formalwear

Formal season is fast-approaching. Here’s pretty Bell, photographed on her Year 11 school formal night. Her stunning dress is made by long-time regular and big-time-talented Sydney dressmaker Lawrence Geor. For the dress bodice and self belt, Lawrence used our black…

Here she is. Looking lovely and oh so grown up! For Gabby’s formal dress our style and colour inspiration came after seeing the beautiful Erdem Margot red lace dress on Pinterest. Soon after, we received a delivery of this stunning red chantilly French…

Here’s the next stage of Gabby’s formal dress in the making! After sewing this first toile in calico and fitting it onto the body, I then made the style and fit changes to the original pattern. I eliminated the deep dart at…

Today I started working on the toile for my daughter’s school formal dress. I’m using a Butterick pattern for the base with some slight changes. It’s looking good so far, just need to make the necessary fit adjustments to the…

I’ll always remember the day Carla came into Tessuti Chatswood along with her mum Josie, to find fabric suitable to recreate this dress (below worn by Selena Gomez) for her formal dress late last year! Such a sweet young lady,…

Initially intended for last night’s Xmas bash, this style was made up again in our stretch sequin Disco Navy and looked quite the party dress for Gabby’s birthday bash instead! The dress is fully lined in 100% jap silk.

I made this lace dress up for Claudia to wear to a wedding on the weekend, as there’s a serious lack of suitable special occasion dresses for 12 year olds!!! The dress was simple and very quick to make. For…

image credit: Josie Lee This gorgeous dress is by local Melbourne designer Pamela Usanto. The skirt is made up in our ever-popular cotton/elastane Swimming Paisley and was worn by Ashleigh Cummins at the 2010 AFI Awards. image credit: Zimbio.com

Remember Stefania? Well she’s all grown up and finished high school…sniff! Here she is looking resplendent in her year 12 formal dress, this time made by talented dressmaker Lilyn in Chatswood. Stefania came to ask about suggestions for styles and…

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